When shooting in direct sunlight, the images can end with a too high contrast, blown out highlights, lens flares, and colors that look overly saturated. There are several ways to prevent this from happening:
- Move into the shade- this is usually the best while making portraits to have the subject in the spotlight, but not insert too much light into the camera.
- Make your own shade: When you are unable to move the subject, use your own shadow, or someone elses shadow, or use a different object to make a shadow.
- Use fill in Flash: therefore you give lighting to the shadows the image creates
- Use a reflector: such as a mirror to reflect back some light to the subject which is good for allowing shooting into the sun.
- Change your perspective: changing your own position may be handy to avoid direct contact with the sun.
- Use a lens hood: You can also simply use your hand, to cover your camera a little bit from the sun.
- Filters: They will cut down the light getting into your camera, and the polarizing filter cuts down the reflections.
- Pick the time of the day to shoot: Dawn and dusk are the best times to shoot since the light is not as strong as the light coming during the day from above the head.
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